as soon as i felt better yesterday, precisely 36 hours after beginning to feel sick, i went on a cleaning and tidying frenzy in my studio, aka "the blue room." blog camp approaches and it needed a good tidy. i changed out the things that were hanging on my inspiration wall and so now these postcards, which i picked up in a café not long ago are there. i thought they were all pretty clever. also changed out the MOO cards, putting up some different ones.

but the biggest project was sorting and folding my fabric stash and making some "shelves" for it out of the wooden crates that our weekly organic veg comes in. since we are, after all, making an effort to consume less this year, it seemed like it would be good to put those boxes to use. you can see them beneath the iPod HiFi. makes it MUCH easier to assess the color ranges when it's all visible like this.

i think you can actually learn quite a lot about your taste when you organize your fabric and see it all in one spot. i tend to like bright, fresh colors (lots of teals and greens, surprise, surprise) and rather scandinavian prints on white. and i've bought a lot of fabric in ikea.

and i finally hung up the little copper whirling dervishes i bought in istanbul last october. aren't they sweet? and they have a little evil eye bead to ward off any bad vibes that might try to get into the studio.

i'm working on my blog camp prezzies today in between getting some letters ready to go about my freelance writing business (yup, i'm available for writing assignments if you know anyone who has a need, especially someone who wants to tell stories about ships).

ok, i'd better get back to work. i'm not quite done out there. hope you're enjoying your thursday. the giant ball of fire (what's it called again? the word has fallen from use around here) actually put in an appearance in the sky today, so my spirits are lifted considerably.

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Oh wow. That full shot of the whole room...wow. It's gorgeous. The room I mean. (but the photo too!). I hope you don't mind but I'm saving it to my personal (offline) inspiration folder... just stunning!

I have been thinking of pylons since Spud posted that on our flickr group. Mind you I have just been thinking of trying to take better and better pictures... I love it, I try the things people have been saying in their comments. Congrats on being explored, by the way!

What a beautiful work space. I'm so inspired now I can't wait until the weekend!The giant ball of fire has appeared in the sky here as well. Too bad this forcefield of freeking cold is keeping it from blasting us with it's rays.

I love your blue room/studio. Just today I was talking to hubs about redoing mine. Well, actually it's not my room - YET. Right now it has some craft stuff and a foos ball (how do you spell that?) table and other crap. I plan on making it my room in the next couple weeks. I'll keep your photos on hand for inspiration ;)